Lidings Supports Kommersant’s Legal Forum in St. Petersburg

Lidings law firm will act as a partner of the 7th Annual Legal Forum organized by the Kommersant Publishing House which is to be hosted at The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in Saint-Petersburg on December 17th 2015.

The forum entitled Legal Results 2015: legislation and business is intended to bring together the leading experts from international and Russian law firms and consulting agencies, CEO’s and corporate lawyers of the largest national and international companies and manufacturing enterprises, government officials, representatives of different public organizations and associations to discuss and analyze the main changes in the Russian legislation introduced by the government in 2015 and exchange thoughts and opinions regarding amendments anticipated in 2016 and their effect on business.

Within the forum’s agenda Lidings together with St. Petersburg-based law firm Maxima Legal will hold a special session Localization of production – stimulating measures addressed to raise issues of localization of foreign production in Russia and associated milestones.

Panel discussion experts will include prominent professionals – representatives of the world-known manufacturing, pharmaceutical, automobile and chemical industries’ companies operating in Russia. The discussion will be moderated by Lidings’ Partner Sergey Patrakeev, Head of the Corporate and M&A Practice and Vladimir Kilinkarov, Partner at Maxima Legal law firm, Head of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Practice.

In a form of an open dialogue all session’s participants will have a chance to discuss and share their thoughts on perspectives of particular actions taken by the government to stimulate import substitution and localization of foreign production sites in Russia.